Here are some blogs launched by recent “graduates” of my Blog Writing classes at Gotham Writers Workshop. I’ll update as new classes progress! Emily Anderson, Married to a Comedian Lisa Denning, The Wine Chef Yaniv Gilad, prodissues Daniel Gomez, Up...
I’m always encouraging/haranguing my Blog Writing students to start regularly reading blogs if they’re not already. A lot of them aren’t, even though they want to write their own blogs, and they don’t know where to start. There are so many...
I have always been the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time, which is particularly funny because I have also been a journalist for all of my professional life. Journalism does not lend itself to this kind of focus. For the first five years of my...
Miranda July posted this wonderful little excerpt: Martha Graham’s advice to her fellow dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille, perfect for all of us creative types (“No artist is pleased”). It’s great no matter what, but it really hit me hard as...
The nice people at 96 Problems — creators of the Rough Draft writing app — are offering a Skillshare scholarship for the best answer to my writing prompt: All the details are here; the deadline is April 4. This is your chance to take any of Skillshare’s great...
I just learned about Pakistan’s cartoon Burka Avenger, thanks to a piece I’m writing for BBC Culture about superheroines. Of course I loved her from the minute I heard her name, but what’s particularly striking about her is her emphasis on literacy:...
